GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Which of the spooky, scary attractions around Grand Rapids is the very best? Leave your suggestions in the comments section below!

I'll admit it. I'm a Halloween fanatic. It's not my fault. I was raised that way.

I remember helping my sister create our own sound effects with a microphone and a cassette recorder so we could play them in the little haunted house we would create on our front porch.

My mother would talk through a walkie talkie with the other receiver stuffed in the back of a ventriloquist's dummy hanging from the corner.

I would be hidden under a coat rack with a sheet pulled over it to make it look like a ghost.

I started early and I never lost the love of scaring and being scared. For years, I took radio listeners on my "Tour of Terror" to some of the best houses in the area.

Suffice it to say, I've got my favorites. But they don't count here. Only your recommendations will make the statewide tour John Gonzalez will be taking to determine if the spookiest is really in the spooki-west.

Indoors. Outdoors. Mazes. Houses. It doesn't matter. As long as it makes you run screaming for the exit, it counts.

Here's what Gonzo says he's looking for: “We're looking at the total experience: Scare factor, set design, quality of actors, special effects, originality and how many times I run for the exit signs,” Gonzalez said.

“We'll accept corn mazes and other attractions, too. But they have to fit the concept of a Haunted House, and they have to be open to the public.”

So, no "family friendly" apple tours and no supposedly actually haunted homes. This one is dedicated to the pure theater of the scare. Who pulls it off the best in West Michigan?

Put your suggestions in the comments section below.

On Wednesday, I'll take the top 5 or so and put them in a poll. The most popular selectcion from that poll will represent Grand Rapids and the surrounding area in the statewide battle for the best scare around.